Amazon TV head Roy Price suspended after he ‘dismissed Rose McGowan’s Weinstein rape claims and made lewd comments to a female executive’

Price was suspended by the tech giant shortly after the actress made the explosive about Weinstein on Twitter

By Guy Birchall and Holly Christodolou

13th October 2017, 9:12 am

Updated: 14th October 2017, 4:14 am

AN Amazon executive has been suspended amid claims he canned Rose McGowan's TV show after she claimed Harvey Weinstein raped her and made lewd comments to another woman.

Rose McGowan, 44, accused Amazon of killing her TV show when she demanded the shamed movie mogul not be involved.

Rose McGowan, with Amazon studio head Roy Price in June 2016, claimed Amazon Studio killed her TV series over claims she made against Weinstein

She claimed she told Roy Price, an executive at Amazon Studios, she had been raped by "HW" - in an apparent reference to Harvey Weinstein.

Price has now been suspended by Amazon after separate claims were made against him by Isa Hackett, an executive producer on Amazon original series The Man in the High Castle and daughter of Philip K. Dick.

The Amazon executive reportedly made a lewd and sexually suggestive comment to his colleague at Comic-Con in 2015, reports TMZ.

Hackett told the Hollywood Reporter he made the advances soon after they met during a cab ride after the event.

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Price is alleged to have propositioned Isa Hackett, pictured, a producer at Amazon, after a Comic Con event in 2015

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Roy Price has now been suspended from Amazon in the wake of the allegations

She reportedly told him she was happily married to another woman and a mum-of-one.

Amazon told Variety: "Roy Price is on leave of absence effective immediately", adding: "We are reviewing our options for our projects we have with the Weinstein Company.”

McGowan made the explosive claims for the first time after apparently being paid £75,000 by the producer over an "incident" in the 1990s.

In a Twitter thread addressed to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, McGowan said: "I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it.

"He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof."

McGowan added: "I had already sold a script I wrote to your studio, it was in development. When I heard a Weinstein bailout was in the works.

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McGowan claimed Amazon ignored her when she raised her concerns about Weinstein

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Actress Rose McGowan claimed she was raped by Weinstein

"I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar."

The Charmed star then claimed she had her attorney demand the script back but "#2 @amazonstudios called to say my show was dead".

She continued: "@jeffbezos I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love @amazon but there is rot in Hollywood.

"@jeffbezos Be the change you want to see in the world. Stand with truth. #ROSEARMY #Amazon".

It's unclear what film script she is referring to or why she thinks Amazon won a "dirty Oscar."

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She urged Amazon to 'stop funding rapists'

McGowan's Twitter page was suspended on Wednesday but she launched into her rant at the Amazon founder after it was re-opened today.

The Sun Online has contacted Price for comment.

Amazon is now trying to disentangle itself from The Weinstein Company with which it was developing two online series.

One, being produced by Oscar-winner David O Russell, could be shelved after Amazon said it was “reviewing its options”. The other is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed series Mad Men, from which Weinstein’s name was being scrubbed.

The actress has been blasting others in Hollywood - including actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon - for failing to step up when they allegedly knew what was happening.